Check your radar. In the summer of 1999, Jim Quinn, (www.warroom.com -- you can listen to his show in archive form) was already making the case that Bush would be the next president. Not that he wanted Bush to be, just that he would be. Bush may not have been on everyone's radar, but he certainly was here in Pittsburgh PA.
Check what I said. I said 1998 and much of 1999. I didn't say all of 1999.